I learned many thing from the interviews that I just listened too. I learned about how people lived and work and what it was like to do those two things. I realized from these interviews that during this time two types of people were not looked upon as equals, women and African Americans. This was brought to my attention in two interviews specificaly, Jim Cole and Elizabeth Miller's. In Jim Cole's interview he talks about how he had been working at the packing house for twenty years but even so, when he wanted to join the union. they would not allow him just because he was African American. In Elizabeth Miller's interview she talks about how she had to butcher a hog and bring it all into her house without any help and when her husband got home and asked who had taken the hog in, he wouldn't believe it was her. I also learned the dangers of working in the time period of the Great Depression. Chris Thorsten's interview, in my opinion talks about working in this time the best. He talks about how everyone gets hurt of their jobs. People got hurt on the build of bridges and hotels. Chris also got hurt. He was squeezed between a crane and broke his collar bone, all of his ribs, and three vertebrae. He was laid up for four years because of this. Even so, he implies that injuries just come with the jobs. Overall the one most important thing that I learned is that most people did not living in New York City and crowded places like that. I learned this from the interview with the man at Eddies Bar. He says "Ahm in New York, but New York ain't in me." After reading more of the interview I realized that this meant that he was living in New York but he definitly does not like it.
Part B
The first interview I read was Peter Mcdonald's. Peter had gone to college and had been looking for a job for three years until he finally found one that accepted him, a bread seller and delivery man. Peter is a male and is twenty four years old. He lives in Mobile, where he had lived all his life, with his aunt who had raises him since he was a boy. This interview took place on October 7, 1938 by Helen S. Hartley.
My impression of Peter is definitly a positive one. He had gone through so much in his life, his mother died while he was young, and then his father died while he was in college. Even with that he never stopped trying to get through school. Then once he was out of school he couldn't find a job for three years until he took one as a bread seller and delivery man which did not have a salery, just commission. Also he had a fiance that he was trying to marry but he couldn't because he wasn't making enough money to support a family. Peter pushed through all of this trouble and never stopped and I think that is a very respectable thing to do.
The second interview I read was Crawford Ellis'. He was the president of the Pan American Insurance Company but he had to work his way up to that. He started as just any other worker for the United Fruit Company but he was promoted rapidly. He soon became one of the three vice presidents of the company until he started his own. Crawford was an eighteen year old male when he had first started with the United Fruit Company. The interview took place in Dallas County by Mildred Thrash.
My impression of Crawford is also a positive one. He seems like a very hard working man. He started as any old worker for a huge buisness but found ways to get noticed and promoted. He got all the way to vice president and then decided to start his own buisness. All of the things that he did that I just stated are impossible to do without dedicated hard work.
I learned many thing from the interviews that I just listened too. I learned about how people lived and work and what it was like to do those two things. I realized from these interviews that during this time two types of people were not looked upon as equals, women and African Americans. This was brought to my attention in two interviews specificaly, Jim Cole and Elizabeth Miller's. In Jim Cole's interview he talks about how he had been working at the packing house for twenty years but even so, when he wanted to join the union. they would not allow him just because he was African American. In Elizabeth Miller's interview she talks about how she had to butcher a hog and bring it all into her house without any help and when her husband got home and asked who had taken the hog in, he wouldn't believe it was her. I also learned the dangers of working in the time period of the Great Depression. Chris Thorsten's interview, in my opinion talks about working in this time the best. He talks about how everyone gets hurt of their jobs. People got hurt on the build of bridges and hotels. Chris also got hurt. He was squeezed between a crane and broke his collar bone, all of his ribs, and three vertebrae. He was laid up for four years because of this. Even so, he implies that injuries just come with the jobs. Overall the one most important thing that I learned is that most people did not living in New York City and crowded places like that. I learned this from the interview with the man at Eddies Bar. He says "Ahm in New York, but New York ain't in me." After reading more of the interview I realized that this meant that he was living in New York but he definitly does not like it.
Part B
The first interview I read was Peter Mcdonald's. Peter had gone to college and had been looking for a job for three years until he finally found one that accepted him, a bread seller and delivery man. Peter is a male and is twenty four years old. He lives in Mobile, where he had lived all his life, with his aunt who had raises him since he was a boy. This interview took place on October 7, 1938 by Helen S. Hartley.
My impression of Peter is definitly a positive one. He had gone through so much in his life, his mother died while he was young, and then his father died while he was in college. Even with that he never stopped trying to get through school. Then once he was out of school he couldn't find a job for three years until he took one as a bread seller and delivery man which did not have a salery, just commission. Also he had a fiance that he was trying to marry but he couldn't because he wasn't making enough money to support a family. Peter pushed through all of this trouble and never stopped and I think that is a very respectable thing to do.
The second interview I read was Crawford Ellis'. He was the president of the Pan American Insurance Company but he had to work his way up to that. He started as just any other worker for the United Fruit Company but he was promoted rapidly. He soon became one of the three vice presidents of the company until he started his own. Crawford was an eighteen year old male when he had first started with the United Fruit Company. The interview took place in Dallas County by Mildred Thrash.
My impression of Crawford is also a positive one. He seems like a very hard working man. He started as any old worker for a huge buisness but found ways to get noticed and promoted. He got all the way to vice president and then decided to start his own buisness. All of the things that he did that I just stated are impossible to do without dedicated hard work.